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An Act to amend the laws regulating the village of Sparta, in the county of Hancock; also, to authorize the City Council of Augusta to make a donation to the Augusta Orphan Asylum, and to incorporate and confer certain powers on said Association. 1851-1852 436 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0389 and id is 1 raw text is: 430           CITIES AND TOWNS-1851-'2.
Town of Sparta.
down the channel of said creek till it intersects the line
dividing the lands, formerly known as the Baber Place in-
to what is now known as the estates of Dr. A. Means and
Charles II. Sanders, thence running westwardly upon said
last mentioned line till it strikes the public highway from
Oxford to Covington, and thence due west to the present,
Proviso,  western boundary of said corporation ; Povided, That
all lands embraced in said corporate limits, both by this
Act, and all Acts heretofore passed, which are not laid off
into town lots, and held, occupied and used as town pro-
perty proper, shall be taxable according to the sune rates
and in the Fame manner, as though the same had not been
embraced within the limits of said corporation, any law,
usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
(No. T2.)
AN ACT to nend the laws regulating the village of Sparta, in
the county of Hancock; also, to authorize the City Council of
Augusta to make a donation to the Augusta Orphan Asylum,
and to incorporate and confer certain powers on said Associa.
tion. Approved, January 22, 1852.
SECIONx . Be it enaCe(ld  by the &nate and7 House
of Relpresentatives of the State of  Georgia in General
Assembly met, and t tis hereby enacted by the authoity oj
roWerover the same, That the Board of Commissioners of the villge
retanulienses. of Sparta, shall be authorized to require such sium as they
may deem expedient, for a license to retail spirituous li-
quors, &c., in said village, not exceeding Fifty Dollars;
and for the purpose of raising a sufficient fund for the re-
Pair of streets, &c., they shall be authorized to impose a
Tax on car.     arriages and vehicles of burthen, and animals kept
nMgE, &U. in the village for labor or pleasure, on persons resident
onaiane.&c. therein, and liable to perform road duty, on slaves or free
persons of color liable to such duty, such sums, annually, as
to th'o Jioard may seem expedient, not exceceding Four
Dolluspin each carriage and other article, Three Dollars
on each of such animals, Five Dollars on eich of such per-
sons, slaves, and free persons of color, and that nothing
herein contained shall annul or impair the powers vested
in said Board by existing laws, or the by-laws of said vil-

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